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JSON Formatter
Format, validate, and beautify JSON data with syntax highlighting
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JSON Operations
Input JSON
Formatted Output
About JSON Formatter
The JSON Formatter tool helps you format, validate, and beautify JSON data with proper indentation and syntax highlighting. Perfect for developers working with APIs, configuration files, or any JSON data that needs to be readable and properly structured.
✨ Key Benefits
- Instantly format and beautify messy JSON
- Validate JSON syntax and catch errors
- Improve code readability with proper indentation
- Minify JSON to reduce file size
- Syntax highlighting for better visualization
🚀 Features
- Format JSON with proper indentation
- Validate JSON syntax with error reporting
- Minify JSON to compact format
- Syntax highlighting for better readability
- Copy formatted JSON to clipboard
- Support for nested objects and arrays
- Real-time validation and formatting
💡 Use Cases
- Formatting API responses for debugging
- Validating JSON configuration files
- Beautifying minified JSON data
- Preparing JSON for documentation
- Code review and collaboration
- Educational tool for learning JSON structure
🎯 Fun Facts
- JSON is a subset of JavaScript but is language-independent
- Properly formatted JSON is 30-40% more readable
- JSON formatting helps prevent syntax errors
- Most APIs return JSON in minified format to save bandwidth
📚 Historical Context
- JSON was first specified by Douglas Crockford in 2001
- JSON became an official standard (ECMA-404) in 2013
- JSON replaced XML as the preferred data format for web APIs
- JSON formatting tools emerged with the rise of REST APIs